Demetria Mills and Pastor Sheals live the same state — and worship a mon fah — but the subject of gay marriage is a ep flt le across their mon ground. NBC's Tom Brokaw reports.
Contents:
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
- 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' PROVIS PREHENSIVE, AND CLIVE, SEXUAL TN
- WARREN WAS ASKED ABOUT FAH AND GAY MARRIAGE. HER RPONSE WENT VIRAL.
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
- WAG UNTIL MARRIAGE: GAY CHRISTIANS NAVIGATE FAH AND SEXUALY
- MEET THE MAN PRACTICG HIS FAH WH THE GAY CHRISTIAN MUNY
- AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
- DPE A MON FAH, GAY MARRIAGE DIVIS
- TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
- MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Stunts are worse-off whout books like ‘This Book is Gay’ to provi LGBTQ stunts wh an stctn manual as they navigate the world. * faith gay msnbc *
“First of all, I’m gay, ” he said, “and this movie is gog to be gay non. "Alex AvilaAnd Gay Tim, a Brish LGBTQ news se, celebrated Friday, the day of the film’s official release, as “Barbie day“ and lled the world-renowned doll a “queer cultural phenomenon. PicturIn an terview wh Fandango, actor Kate McKnon, who is openly gay and plays “Weird Barbie” the film, said Barbie is about “imagatn.
Many also flagged the teased scene which Barbie, now the real world, exchang a longg look wh Ameri Ferrera’s Gloria character; though, the relatnship between the two turns out to be a tribute to motherhood and the tradnal, nuclear before the film’s release, Robbie all but squashed the mors that some or any of the Barbi and Kens would be gay, tellg the Brish LGBTQ magaze Attu: The dolls don’t “actually have sexual orientatns. There are brief appearanc by Earrg Magic Ken and Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken, both of which Mattel has always nied were tentnally gay-d.
'THIS BOOK IS GAY' PROVIS PREHENSIVE, AND CLIVE, SEXUAL TN
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * faith gay msnbc *
”As far as the queer-d trailers and promotnal clips for the new “Barbie” film, Rand poted to a phenomenon known as “gay wdow advertisg, ” or the practice of advertisers gturg to queer dienc a way that will go over the heads of those who would disapprove.
“This Book is Gay, ” by Juno Dawson, starts wh a wele: “There’s a long-nng joke that, on ‘g out, ’ a young lbian, gay guy, bisexual, or trans person should receive a membership rd and stctn manual. ” And “This Book is Gay” reads as exactly that: a fact-based chapter is terspersed wh a ndid, first-person narrative llected om real parts humoro and rmative, this nonfictn young adult book is divid to sectns: inty, stereotyp, queer history, g out and relatnships — cludg sexual relatnships. “The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex, ” a chapter posned toward the end of the book, opens wh text outled to make you take notice, “This Chapter is about sex.
WARREN WAS ASKED ABOUT FAH AND GAY MARRIAGE. HER RPONSE WENT VIRAL.
Jacksonville Jaguars ach Kev Maxen has e out as gay, makg him the first out male ach a pro men's league. NBC Sports' Corey Robson explas why this is a big step for football. * faith gay msnbc *
“This Book is Gay” is equently near the top of the Amerin Library Associatn’s list of most banned of the books we feature on the “Velshi Banned Book Club” are lerature, cludg ntemporary works of poetry and graphic novels.
Conversely, the nversatn surroundg “This Book is Gay” is about the necsy for prehensive and, most importantly, clive sexual tn.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS KEV MAXEN BE FIRST PROFSNAL MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
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As Dawson so saliently remds rears, the excln of same-sex upl the typil sex-ed class is nothg short of “stutnal homophobia. This is happeng all over the natn, state by urse, many of the arguments ma agast “This Book is Gay” center around antiquated views of genr exprsn and sexualy, but they’re also ma bad fah, cludg labelg this book as “appropriate.
“This Book is Gay” is for those young adults already grapplg wh their sexualy and inty. By prohibg accs to valuable rourc like “This Book is Gay, ” we are leavg already vulnerable LGBTQ+ young adults wh nowhere to turn.
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JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ACH OUT AS GAY
“I mented on our cy postg somethg about the gay pri month and I lerally was attacked by people who don’t even know me.
” David Bh, 61, a real tate veloper, said, “There’s a terrible misnceptn that Christians hate gay people. "The uple talked onle for a few months before cidg to meet at a Wt Coast gatherg of the Gay Christian Network.
WAG UNTIL MARRIAGE: GAY CHRISTIANS NAVIGATE FAH AND SEXUALY
Although not a datg service, the Gay Christian Network's gathergs provi a unique opportuny for dividuals like David and Constanto Khalaf.
In mastream evangelil culture, to which many WUM'ers subscribe, masturbatn is taboo, often viewed as sful, and sometim seen as a form of homosexualy. For LGBTQ Christians wag until marriage, masturbatn n add a layer of shame rooted ternalized homophobia. Imam El-Faro Khaki -found Toronto's first LGBTQ-iendly mosque, Uny Mosque, 10 years ago to allow lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer Mlims to attend prayers whout havg to hi their sexual orientatn or genr inty for fear of discrimatn.
MEET THE MAN PRACTICG HIS FAH WH THE GAY CHRISTIAN MUNY
INTERPRETATIONGay Mlim scholar Stt Siraj al-Haqq Kugle has spent two s rearchg LGBTQ issu the Islamic fah and said many people are surprised to disver that Islam is not herently nmng of LGBTQ people. “In the Quran, there is no word that explicly scrib homosexual or transgenr persons; the Arabic terms were vented after the Quran’s revelatn, by medieval jurists and ntemporary journalists, doctors and social crics.
FINDING ‘A MIDDLE GROUND’Tugay Sarac was 13 when his father died eight years ago.
AFFIRMG MOSQU HELP GAY MLIMS RENCILE FAH, SEXUALY
“I thought I n't be Mlim and gay at the same time, ” he said. “This went on for a few years until I went to the Ibn Rhd-Goethe Mosque, where I realized that is actually possible to be Mlim and gay.
”Tugay Sarac is the LGBTQ ordator of Ibn Rhd-Goethe Mosque, the only self-scribed liberal mosque Germany. Courty of Tugay SaracIbn Rhd-Goethe Mosque is the only self-scribed liberal mosque Germany. “I know that many gay Mlims turn to radil ias bee they want to cure themselv om homosexualy, ” Sarac explaed.
“Mosqu like Ibn Rhd-Goethe n give people a place to be gay and Mlim. Acrdg to a 2017 Pew Rearch Center survey of Amerin Mlims, a majory (52 percent) believe society should accept homosexualy, pared wh jt 27 percent 2007.
DPE A MON FAH, GAY MARRIAGE DIVIS
K., however, Mlims are ls acceptg of homosexualy. A 2016 ICM Unlimed survey found only 18 percent of Brish Mlims agreed that homosexualy should be legal Bra.
‘INCLUSIVE AND RELEVANT’Like Kugle, Imam Daayiee Abdullah, one of the first openly gay imams the U. S., believ the prevalent view of homosexualy as a s current Islamic teachg is rooted tradn, rather than scripture.
TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
“Many tradns are locked to a particular time, place and culture — they're not necsarily appropriate for today or for people who will be worshippg 50 years om now, ” Abdullah Daayiee Abdullah, founr of the Mec Instute, is one of the first openly gay Imams the U. Some are probably homosexuals. When one of those homosexual members of his ngregatn to him and says, “Reverend Sheals, I love my partner.
"I say to them that 's unacceptable, 's ungodly and 's unnatural, " he a leadg voice on the issue of gay marriage natnwi, Pastor Sheals is backg Geia's proposed nstutnal amendment to ban same sex marriage.
MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)
Demetria Mills and Pastor Sheals live the same state and worship a mon fah, but the subject of gay marriage is a ep flt le across their mon ground. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate.